CHEMISTRY: Great job with quantum numbers today! Wow, it was a lot. Confused yet?
Don’t worry! Today you learned all the background information about quantum numbers and what they mean. Tomorrow we will begin putting it all together 🙂
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The most common way of creating a diamond is using a high pressure machine and lots of heat. Scientist have know found a new way to make diamonds and it does it does not require tons of pressure, in fact no pressure at all. Diamonds can now be grown at atmospheric pressure in a liquid chamber of gallium, iron, nickel, and silicon while being exposed to a gas of carbon-rich methane along with hydrogen.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/diamonds-extreme-atmospheric-pressure
Scientist recently have been studying the noise effects on birds. This noise can be pointed to traffic noises and city noises. The noises are said to drown out important things to birds. Mating calls and spike stress hormones are extremely affected by these noises. Researchers have also been finding that these noises can even harm birds before they hatch.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/noise-pollution-harm-birds-before-hatch
There have been indications that bird flu has been contaminating cows and affecting their milk. No worries, the virus is at low risk for people. This low risk is a result of the pasteurization process killing most of the bacteria found.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/h5n1-bird-flu-cows-milk-virus-health
Technologies that remove carbon from the atmosphere could help turn the thermostat back down by the end of the century, by stashing CO2 in the ocean. This could also potentially slow down climate change.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ocean-carbon-removal-climate-change
Scientists are trying to discover a way to make a new tire that tears less easily. Tires wear off over time and leave there leftovers on the ground that create a lot of pollution. Scientist are trying to make a new tire that helps pollution and makes tires last longer. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tear-resistant-rubber-tough-tires
Fingerprints, unique to each individual, serve as nature’s identification system, aiding in tasks like unlocking phones and solving crimes. Recent advancements in forensic science, such as detecting fingerprints on wiped surfaces and estimating their age, have enhanced the reliability of fingerprint evidence in investigations.
https://www.snexplores.org/article/lets-learn-about-fingerprints
Male fiery-haired paradise jumping spiders, which Echeverri has studied, use bright colors, waving legs and vibrations to grab the attention of a potential mate.
Nighttime pollinators often rely on scent to find blooms.
https://www.snexplores.org/article/air-pollution-pollinators-find-flower-scent
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Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory produced the first ever fusion reactions with an excess of energy. They used 192 lasers to cause small atomic nuclei to merge with larger nuclei. This process is called ignition and is the first step in creating sustainable, eco friendly energy that we can use instead of nuclear fission power plants.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nuclear-fusion-ignition-first
Scientists find an easier and more convenient way to make and form diamonds and other.
This technique doesn’t require as high of a temperature and uses liquid metals exposed to gas so the diamonds can form at an atmospheric pressure.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/diamonds
The Voyager 1 spacecraft that for months has lost communication with earth is now responding. It has sent its scientific findings about the sun’s magnetic field back to earth. In the next few weeks NASA hopes that they can retrieve more data from the craft.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nasa-voyager-1-online-interstellar
Scientists have recently discovered that cardiovascular diseases have a link to irregular bone marrow cells. They are currently branding research for a treatment for this newfound health complication.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/heart-disease-bone-marrow-cells-immune
Traffic noise can severely disrupt animals, affecting their mating calls, stress levels, and even survival. Recent research indicates that some creatures can suffer harm from this noise pollution even before they are capable of hearing it. Zebra finch eggs and nestlings exposed to traffic noise experience lasting health and reproductive issues, highlighting the pervasive threat of noise pollution.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/noise-pollution-harm-birds-before-hatch
A recently established system can indicate where heat will be dangerous in the United States. Any U.S. citizen is able to enter their zip code and see if they are at risk of extreme heat in their area. This is very useful because over 1 200 people in the United States die from extreme heat, according to the CDC.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tool-maps-heat-health-danger-heathrisk
This week, scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered a way to create artificial cells from real cells, and these artificial cells operate like the real cells. This is a big step that has a lot of potential for the medical field.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240423135213.htm
Police have had issues in the past with the fact criminals are getting smarter by wiping their finger prints off objects. Scientists have gotten even smarter though. They have discovered how to reveal finger prints off objects that criminals thought they wiped away. This is possible because chemicals in a human’s finger tips are able to corrode metal surfaces. By knowing this they are able to find the prints even if they can’t see it with their eyes because of corrosion.
https://www.snexplores.org/article/lets-learn-about-fingerprints
Scientists have recently studied that exposure to too much noise can harm you more than just your ears. they have found that loud sounds can damage the hair cells deep within the ear and the auditory nerves. Hair cells pick up vibrations in the air and the auditory nerves carry the signals picked up from the hair cells. long exposure can cause damages to these parts of the hearing and can make it harder to hear.
https://www.snexplores.org/article/noise-pollution-harms-brain-health
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Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, the Ross Ice Shelf, is in danger of being destroyed because of a rapid shift in the ocean’s currents. Currently, the Ross Ice Shelf is protected from melting by a natural oceanic conveyor belt. However, if the Ross Ice Shelf were to give way today, it would allow warm ocean currents to melt it from two sides and the ice shelf would be destroyed.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ocean-currents-imperil-ross-ice-shelf
Researchers report in the May 22 Science. This foliage biting gets more common when there’s a pollen shortage, says Consuelo De Moraes, a chemical ecologist and entomologist at ETH Zurich. Experiments with bees show that use their mouthparts to snip a little confetti bits out of plant foliage. This experiment proves that mustard and tomato plants bloomed faster than the others that haven’t been snipped.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pollen-deprived-bumblebees-may-speed-plant-blooming-biting-leaves
Science researchers have recently found that traffic noise can drown out mating calls, and spike stress and increase mortality. Now, new research suggests some animals can be affected by this noise even before they can hear it. this dopant only affect birds but other animal that live in places near a lot of noise pollution.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/noise-pollution-harm-birds-before-hatch
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In the United States, there’s been a detection of bird flu genetic material in cow milk. This unusual finding has sparked some concern about the virus’s potential to infect mammals. However, the FDA has been quick to reassure the public that the pasteurization process, which all milk undergoes before it hits shelves, effectively kills the virus, making the milk safe for consumption. They are actively monitoring the situation to better understand the implications and to maintain the safety of the food supply.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/h5n1-bird-flu-cows-milk-virus-health
For a diamond to form it has to under go immense pressure from the earth originally, but scientists have figured out a technique that can be performed in a lab to do this. It is called high-pressure and high-temperature growth (HPHT) which needs about 5 gigapascals of pressure. After this carbon is dissolved in extreme heat to make diamonds.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/diamonds-extreme-atmospheric-pressure
Water might be the hero of global warming. It absorbes a third of the worlds CO2 that is emitted from all human activities. Scientists are trying to find a way to get the water to absorb more CO2. They say if they can get carbon dioxide out of the air just a little more, then it will slow global warming down tremendously.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ocean-carbon-removal-climate-change
fingerprints are unique to each person and are all different they have all different lines in different ways. also helps solve crimes.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/noise-pollution-harm-birds-before-hatch
After some time of research, scientists have discovered a new cell that generates allergies all year round. These cells are known as MBC2s, which stands for type 2 memory B cells. Joshua Koenig helped lead research on these cells. He conducted two experiments, one with children and one with adults. He used and tested many different allergies, allowing the science to come to the conclusion that these cells could be causing year long allergies.
https://www.snexplores.org/article/immune-memory-cells-lasting-allergies
Researchers have found that loud noises don’t only cause hearing loss but they can also affect your brain. loud noises can damage cells in your ears that attach the the nerve that sends signals to the brain.
https://www.snexplores.org/article/noise-pollution-harms-brain-health
NASA has restored communication with Voyager 1, allowing it to resume its exploration of interstellar space. Recent discoveries challenge previous notions about the outer solar system, reaffirming Voyager 1’s enduring importance in cosmic research.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nasa-voyager-1-online-interstellar
Scientists have recently experimented with rat and mice brains. They made a hybrid mouse and rat. Putting rat brain cells into a very young mouse so they both could develop together. The rat brain helped with their smelling sense and allowed to smell buried cookies under ground that normal mice could not. This research is leading to test with other animals brains to see the effects.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rat-cell-mice-brains-chimera-sniff-cookie
A unexpected cause of disease, irregular bone marrow cells, has just became known. These cells can be made into blood cells, immune cells, or copy themselves. Therefore if it multiply to fast, or incorrectly it can cause disease.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/heart-disease-bone-marrow-cells-immune
New research is showing how noise can harm way more than just our ears. People don’t normally think to protect their ears and now research is showing how even everyday noises like lawn mowers can be linked to things like bad sleep and stress.
New research is showing how noise can harm way more than just our ears. People don’t normally think to protect their ears and now research is showing how even everyday noises like lawn mowers can be linked to things like bad sleep and stress.
https://www.snexplores.org/article/noise-pollution-harms-brain-health
The Voyager 1 spacecraft, which had been out of contact with Earth for months, has regained communication. It has transmitted its scientific observations regarding the sun’s magnetic field back to Earth. In the next couple of months, NASA aims to gather additional data from the spacecraft.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nasa-voyager-1-online-interstellar
Rain Bosworth, an experimental psychologist at the Rochester Institute of Technology and her teams work may suggest that babies have a innate sensitivity to sign language. She examines how sign language is learned and understood through research on vision and touch in both the deaf and hearing populations. Through this and other areas of research, she seeks to understand how prenatal sensory input (e.g., observing parents using sign language or listening to scientific jargon spoken in the home) influences our development. Ultimately, Bosworth’s work is providing a more comprehensive understanding of how deaf and hard-of-hearing children learn to speak.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rain-bosworth-deaf-children-sign-language
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory produced the first ever fusion reactions with an excess of energy. They used 192 lasers to cause small atomic nuclei to merge with larger nuclei.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nuclear-fusion-ignition-first
Scientists have discovered a self destructing plastic. This would help pollution but most plastic gets thrown in places that don’t get enough sunlight for it to self destruct.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/50-years-ago-scientists-developed-self-destructing-plastic
Scientists are currently working on a new tire. They are trying to create a new tire that won’t wear and tear as quick, and one that will have a less worse of an affect on the environment. Scientists are working on this to lessen the pollution.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tear-resistant-rubber-tough-tires
Everyone has their own unique finger print. No two people have the same two fingerprints, everyone’s is different in some way.
https://www.snexplores.org/article/lets-learn-about-fingerprints
bird flu has contaminated cows and their milk. It’s not harmful to humans, and we aren’t at risk of receiving it.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/h5n1-bird-flu-cows-milk-virus-health
Recently studies have shown people getting heart attacks without smoking, drinking, or having a history with them. Doctors believe the reason for this is something transmitted in the bone marrow.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/heart-disease-bone-marrow-cells-immune
Researchers studied how kids look at sign language gestures versus non-sign gestures. When they see sign language gestures, their attention is focused to the hands and they can tell that it is a real language. This shows that babies can learn and pick up on any language, whether it’s spoken or signed.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rain-bosworth-deaf-children-sign-language
Recently studies have shown people getting heart attacks without smoking, drinking, or having a history with them. Doctors believe the reason for this is something transmitted in the bone marrow.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/heart-disease-bone-marrow-cells-immune
Scientists have discovered that an artificial intelligence(AI) can decode words and sentences from brain activity with pretty good accuracy. The team of scientists used segments of brain activity to see the possibilities of what the AI guesses it heard being said through the readings.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-speech-brain-activity-accuracy
There is a rare condition called prosopometamorphopsia (PMO). This condition causes a person to see peoples faces distorted, looking like a demonic demon. Scientists have found a way to make altered face images, making them look like what a person with PMO would see. The scientists hoped that this would make people more mindful and understandable of how these patients are living.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/distorted-faces-prosopometamorphopsia
Thousands have heart disease and it comes in many ways. In the last decade scientists have found that clonal hematopoiesis (a bone marrow issue) is associated with an high risk of getting cardiovascular disease. A 2021 study has found that that over 62000 people who’ve had a heart attacks from 2005-2018, 15% of those people did not smoke, have high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and or diabetes. The newly found risk comes from stem cells in bone morrow These cells make copies of themselves and or transform into blood and immune cells. Scientists still look for a cure and have possibly found one using a chip.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/heart-disease-bone-marrow-cells-immune
Scientists are trying to discover a way to make a new tire that tears less easily. Tires wear off over time and leave there leftovers on the ground that create a lot of pollution. Scientist are trying to make a new tire that helps pollution and makes tires last longer.
Scientist are using new underwater microphones to map the ocean better the slow motion of this machine allows it to mick up lots of things.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/stealthy-robots-microphones-could-improve-maps-ocean-noise
Scientist are using new underwater microphones to map the ocean better the slow motion of this machine allows it to mick up lots of things. Over the next couple of years scientist belive this will help us better understand what’s out the re in the ocean.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/stealthy-robots-microphones-could-improve-maps-ocean-noise
I have been struggling with all of the work that we have been given while also having things outside of school. I am trying to stay on top of everything and not get behind. Also, I want to make sure I understand everything as we go.